Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co.’s Empirical Analysis
220 U.S. 373 · 1911
Citation profile
470 federal appellate · 135 district · 233 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,362 later decisions (140 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation (1986), Monsanto Company v. Spray-Rite Service Corporation (1984)
470 federal appellate · 135 district · 233 state decisions — followed in 37 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
reviewedDr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co. (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Swift Company v. United States · United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · Addyston Pipe Steel Company v. United States · York Manufacturing Company v. Arthur Cassell J B
Cited together with United States v. Colgate & Co. · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · United States v. Parke, Davis & Co. · Continental Inc v. Gte Sylvania Incorporated · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 1,362 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To sustain the restraint, it must be found to be reasonable both with respect to the public and to the parties, and that it is limited to what is fairly necessary, in the circumstances of the particular case . . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]uch vertical control destroys horizontal competition as effectively as if [landlords] 'formed a combination and endeavored to establish the same restrictions . . . by agreement with each other.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he most enlightened judicial policy is to let people manage their own business in their own way, unless the ground for interference is very clear.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.